noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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UK:/ˈtæ.ɹəʊ/
US:/ˈtæ.ɹoʊ/
/ˈtɛ(ə).ɹoʊ/Mary–marry–merry merger
New-Zealand, rare:/ˈtæ.ɹɔt/
General-American:Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
rhymes with -æɹəʊ
homophone: taro
CMU ARPABET:T AE2 R OW1
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 1
A card game played in various different variations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, plural, singular, uncountable
Examples
1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed. [...] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.
1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0140445803&id=lRbXDsA9u4AC&pg=PA333&lpg=PA333&sig=s0cNY_83AgaK_TWOEA1qpv95tuQ They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot. As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.
2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0199246297&id=hGm9Dj5OmF8C&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&sig=rjtFvOxVBgk1cro3fLQ5bLn9Eqw In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; [...]
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
3
noun
Meaning 3
any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tarot card
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: card
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.
Across languages
Translations
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Bulgarian:
таро
(taro)
— card game
Catalan:
tarot
— card game
Chinese Mandarin:
塔羅牌 /塔罗牌
(tǎluó pái)
— card game
Chinese Mandarin:
塔羅 /塔罗
(tǎluó)
— card game
Chinese Mandarin:
意大利紙牌 /意大利纸牌
(Yìdàlì zhǐpái)
— card game
Czech:
taroky
— card game
Danish:
tarot
— card game
Esperanto:
tarokoj
— card game
Finnish:
tarot
— card game
Finnish:
tarokki
— card game
French:
tarot
— card game
Friulian:
taroc
— card game
Georgian:
ტარო
(ṭaro)
— card game
German:
Tarot
— card game
Greek:
ταρό
(taró)
— card game
Hindi:
टैरो
(ṭairo)
— card game
Hungarian:
tarot
— card game
Italian:
tarocco
— card game
Japanese:
タロット
(tarotto)
— card game
Korean:
타로
(taro)
— card game
Persian:
تارو
(târo)
— card game
Persian:
تاروت
(târot)
— card game
Polish:
tarot
— card game
Polish:
tarok
— card game
Portuguese:
tarô
— card game
Russian:
таро́
(taró)
— card game
Serbo-Croatian:
тарот
— card game
Serbo-Croatian:
tarot
— card game
Turkish:
tarot
— card game
Chinese Mandarin:
塔羅牌 /塔罗牌
(tǎluó pái)
— individual card
Chinese Mandarin:
塔羅卡 /塔罗卡
(tǎluó kǎ)
— individual card
